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Question: Are you in favour of or against less government regulation of business?
Choices: "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of" "Neither in favour of nor against" "Against" "Strongly against"
Data: % of "Strongly in favour of" "In favour of"
Period:
Area:
7 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Germany73.4%
2 Republic of Korea68.9%
3 France 61.9%
4 Canada52.7%
5 Australia49.3%
6 United States47.0%
7 Japan39.6%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 3 countries.

Source
ISSP 2006

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.129808 X +6.663
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.041
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -42013.316267 X +74085.758
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.320
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.102

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 0.363885 X +81.696
Correlation coefficient (r)0.017
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.000

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = -0.528709 X +1.770
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.191
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.036

Suicide, age-standardized (per 100 000 population)
No. of data7
Regression equation
Y = 2.526651 X +11.071
Correlation coefficient (r)0.072
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.005